As I am currently taking my break at work, I am here on the computer responding to any comments made about my last post. Thanks to all who left a comment. Anyway, the reason I bring this up is that where I work, we have a computer lab at the community center that is available to the public. Most of the people who come in to use it leave disappointed after finding out that they cannot get on the porn sites because of the filter system that the Telecommunications department installed on all the computers. Just kidding!

All joking aside, we do have people come in to use the computers. And the children in our after school program love getting on the computer, to say the least. And throughout the day, some employees from the city will come in to use the computer on their break. It may be to get onto the city web site for information from personnel. Or it could be home banking. Or just checking out the scores of the games from last night.

When the neighborhood center opens in the morning, I usually turn the computers on so that the lab will be ready for use. Today, however, I did not do that. So what happens. I get a guy from Parks department comes in to the center and walks into the computer lab.

Now, I have to be honest with you. A part of me has it in for the parks department. Some of the employees work hard, I give them that. But there are many others who look at putting work off on others, or are somewhere they not not suppose to be. Sometimes, there will be several employees from the parks department holed up in a neighborhood center playing pool or lifting weights in the weight room. But no one can say anything about it.

Anyway, getting back to the computer lab. Sometime later, I came in to the computer lab, only to find that the computers were turned off. Now, when some people come in and find that the computers are off, they will ask a staff member if the computers can be turned on. This employee from Parks did not even ask. He just left the center.

Which gets me to wondering. Did he not know how to turn the computer on? Was he embarrassed to ask for help? If he had asked for help, I most likely would have been more than happy to help him out. We get people ask that all the time. My advice, though, would be to sign up for a computer class.

But I have a funny feeling that the employee was just too lazy to turn the computer on. If it was on, he most likely would have sat down. But since he had to turn it on and wait, he didn't bother.

And now I know why some parks go without maintenance for a long period of time.